A producer for the movie and television adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” novels said the television portion of the ambitious project will air on HBO, MTV News reported Tuesday.

Universal Pictures’ plans to turn the books into three feature films and three TV miniseries were canceled in July, reportedly because of the story’s massive scale and the large budget the adaptations would require.

Speaking to MTV News, producer Brian Grazer said, “We’re going to do [‘The Dark Tower’] with HBO. We’ll do the TV with HBO, and we’ll do the movie with… to be determined. We’ll do it right.”

Grazer said he and co-producer Ron Howard had scaled back the project’s budget. “When people say no to you enough, then you have to lose money, which we’ve done without harming the scope of the film,” he explained.

Grazer said he believes that Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who signed on in April to play the lead role of Roland Deschain, will still be part of the series.

The story, combining Western, horror and fantasy elements, follows Deschain as he travels through an Old West-like landscape in search of the mythical Dark Tower to save civilization.